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To the 11th hee saith, That the said Vinit … To the 11th hee saith, That the said Vinitro, hill and fendley (sic) were and<br />
are severally indebted to this deponent who expecteth payment of the said<br />
respective debts due to him out of the wages of the sayd parties Agents/
To the 12th hee saith, That hee this rendent doeth not know of any<br />
freight received for any of the goods laden aboard the said shipp the<br />
voyage in question, but hath heard the said Fawkner the [?Elder]<br />
acknowledge that freight was paid for the said goods and hath alsoe<br />
heard some of the Merchants Laders say they had paid freight for<br />
their goods aboard and for their passages in the said shipp, before<br />
shee came to the disaster aforesaid./
Repeated before Doctor Godolphin/
Thomas Attwood [SIGNATURE, RH SIDE]
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The last day of Aprill. 1656/
Gold Roach and others against}<br />
dobbins. Smith Suckley}
Examined upon an Allegation on the behalf of the said dobbins./
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'''William Haddocke''' of Wapping in the Countie<br />
of Middlesex mariner aged 49 yeares or thereabouts<br />
a wittnes sworne and examined saith as followeth-
To the first Article of the said Allegation hee saith, That by and according to<br />
the usuall Customs knowne received and practized amoungst Merchants<br />
and Masters of shipps, there was and is an Allowance in all sea voyages<br />
to the Master and Companie of every shipp, according to the nature of the<br />
voyage and the quality of the goods, some Voiages being of qreater and<br />
some of lesse importance, And saith that from the Ports of Saint Mallo<br />
Roane New haven flanders dover Genoa and Leghorne and other Ports<br />
within and without the Streights, the usuall allowance to the Master and<br />
Companie was and it upon each bale of goods two Royalls upon every duckat<br />
of freight, or one Royall at the least, And that upon every voyage<br />
whatsoever the Laders or ffreighters doe usually and generally give an<br />
Allowance to the Masters and Companies of shipps by them employed<br />
over and besides the freight due and payable to the Proprietors of<br />
such shipp or shipps, which Allowances commonly knowne and<br />
entitled by and with the name or title of primiage and Average the<br />
premisses hee saith hee knoweth by long experience, having for about 28<br />
or 30 yeares last past borne severall officers in and aboard severall shipps<br />
and having been Master and Commander of severall shipps in severall<br />
voiages from all the ports above said for the space of 21 yeares last past<br />
or thereabouts, and thereby hath practically and punctually observed and<br />
taken notice of the Custome and allowance predeposed. having received himself<br />
severall times such allowance upon his severall Voiages from those parts And<br />
further cannot depose:-/
To the second Article hee saith that for severall yeares last past came<br />
particularly ever since English shipps have used the navigation betweene<br />
Lisbone and the Brazeele manned with English or others, there hath from<br />
time to time constantly and continually been a certaine average allowed and<br />
mentioned in every Charterparty and bill of ladeing for or by way of average<br />
besides the freight due to the shipps Owners in such Charterparties expressed<br />
which allowance or average the Masters and Companies of shipps<br />
undertaking such a Voyage have usually received from their freighters<br />
as to them the said Masters and Companies duely belonging and not to<br />
the Owners of such shipp or shipps, And saith the said Average was and is<br />
constantly soe allowed as grounded upon a long continued Custome and practice<br />
and priviledge of such Masters and Companies, for and as an engagement<br />
and reward to and for the undergoeing of soe dangerous a voiage both as regard<br />
of the excessive heate in the parts of Brazeele, and of the hostile environment<br />
they are lyable to meet with all from the hollanders being enemies to the Portu=<br />
guese, and for satisfaction of dammage in the goods if any such happen by<br />
the default of such Masters and Companie, The premisses hee saith hee and Companie, The premisses hee saith hee +
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